these people's state of mind was a far stretch from fear filled doomsdayers. why predictions of destruction are simply myth. >> there's nothing in the mayan calendar to suggest that gigantic floods and quakes are going to destroy our world. >> there are no prophesies that say, the world is going to end. >> i think what we are dealing with is the denial of our own deaths. >> this obscure relic, monument 6, is the focus of the maya countdown to doomsday. warn, damaged, incomplete, translate the end date of the calendar and a suggestion that something will happen. there is no evidence the maya were counting down to doomsday. >> the cataclysmic view is not borne out by what we know